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Unless
our conception of patriotism is progressive, it cannot
hope to embody the real affection and the real interest
of the nation.
-- Jane
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Democracy
is an objective. Democratization is a process. Democratization
serves the cause of peace because it offers the possibility
of justice and of progressive change without force.
-- Boutros
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"I'm a liberal.
I'm confused when that became a bad word..."
-- George
Clooney
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“We
have a complete void of progressive politics in this
country right now. The will of the people goes ignored
and unrealized. I'm searching for the people that can
enter the political system, a strong third party. We
need to consolidate.”
-- Ani
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In a
progressive country change is constant; change is inevitable.
-- Benjamin Disraeli
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I
think it is important that people who are perceived
as liberals not be afraid of talking about moral and
community values.
-- Marian
Wright Edelman
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The
biases the media has are much bigger than conservative or
liberal.
They're about getting ratings, about making money, about
doing stories that are easy to cover.
-- Al Franken
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Without
liberals we wouldn't have unions. We wouldn't have
environmental protections. We wouldn't have seat belts
or birth control or the ACLU! Any of these things!
-- Janeane
Garofalo
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The
progressive movement against the war of occupation
in Iraq is a reason for hope, as is resistance to
free trade agreements in Latin America. Those are
moments that we have to celebrate: that people still
find the resolve and energy to resist.
-- Danny
Glover
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There's
enormous progressive activism and, more often than
not, success at the grassroots level - everything
from living wage campaigns to efforts to finance our
elections are having terrific success.
-- Jim
Hightower
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“I believe in a relatively equal society, supported by institutions that limit extremes of wealth and poverty. I believe in democracy, civil liberties, and the rule of law. That makes me a liberal, and I’m proud of it."
-- Paul Krugman (Nobel Prize-winning economist)
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The
liberals have not softened their view of actuality
to make themselves live closer to the dream, but instead
sharpen their perceptions and fight to make the dream
actuality...
-- Margaret
Mead
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Every
piece of progressive social legislation passed by Congress
in the 20th century bears a union label.
-- George
Meany |
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There
is not a liberal America and a conservative America
- there is the United States of America. There is
not a black America and a white America and latino
America and asian America - there's the United States
of America.
-- Barack
Obama
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"The
silent majority really is a liberal majority, even
though the word liberal has taken a real beating over
the last 20 years by radical conservatives."
~ Robert
Reich
The
liberal ideal is that everyone should have fair access
and fair opportunity.
This is not equality of result. It's equality of opportunity.
There's a fundamental difference. ~ Robert
Reich
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“A great democracy must be progressive or it will soon
cease to be a great democracy”
-- Theodore
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No
man can call himself liberal, or radical, or even
a conservative advocate of fair play, if his work
depends in any way on the unpaid or underpaid labor
of women at home, or in the office.
-- Gloria
Steinem
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"I
am also very proud to be a liberal. Why is that so
terrible these days? The liberals were liberators—they
fought slavery, fought for women to have the right
to vote, fought against Hitler, Stalin, fought to
end segregation, fought to end apartheid. Liberals
put an end to child labor and they gave us the five
day work week! What's to be ashamed of?" -- Barbra
Streisand
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The
idea of a liberal media bias is simply a myth. If
only it were true, we might have a more humane, open-minded,
and ultimately effective public debate on the issues
facing the country.
-- Barbra
Streisand
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On
issue after issue, the polls -- and these are not
snapshot polls; these are polls over a consistent
period of time -- show that most Americans share what
one could call core liberal or progressive values:
investment in health care and education over tax cuts;
fair trade over free trade; corporate accountability
over deregulation; environmental protection over laissez-faire
policies; defending Social Security and Medicare over
privatizing them; raising the minimum wage over eliminating
it. The country prefers progressive alternatives to
the failed policies of the conservative right.
-- Katrina
vanden Heuvel
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“There
are three critical ingredients to democratic renewal
and progressive change in America: good public policy,
grassroots organizing and electoral politics.”
-- Paul
Wellstone
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On the
contrary a film can promote the idea of change without any
political message whatsoever
but in its form and language can tell people that they can
change their lives
and contribute to progressive changes in the world.
-- Wim Wenders
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